In 2014 the World Health Organization called for palliative care to be integrated as an
essential element of the health care continuum. Yet in 2017 US palliative care services are …

There is the knowledge to improve the Quality of Life, Dying and Death of cancer sufferers,
other patients dying of chronic diseases, HIV/AIDS and the children and elderly terminally ill …

Objective: To identify barrier to achieving universal access to high quality palliative care in
Canada, review published national strategies and frameworks to promote palliative care …

Over the last 10 years the number of palliative care teams in hospitals has more than
doubled. Yet despite the myriad benefits of palliative care, as well as its recent growth, much …

Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families
facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness through the prevention and relief …

Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment), involving more than
4000 patients, documented “substantial shortcomings in care for seriously ill hospitalized …

Palliative care has been one of the most rapidly growing fields of health care in the United
States in the past decade. The benefits of palliative care have now been shown in multiple …

Background: Public health and palliative care are both broad disciplines with blurred
boundaries. There is growing support for an alignment of palliative care to public health …

A national dialogue is now in full flower on how to advance palliative care and expand
hospice ser vices in the United States. Driving this discussion are concerns about an aging …

Palliative care for patients with advanced illness is a subject of growing importance in health
services, policy and research. In 2001 Ireland became one of the first nations to publish a …